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Chilli Chocolate Flapjack

Andy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:02:19 +0000

This makes a wicked combonation, the recipe uses quite a lot of chilli, i say its meduium hot but others will think its hot, if you are unsure, add a little at a time, give it a good mix then taste it and adjust if its not hot enough.

ngredients
200g/7¼oz unsalted butter
200g/7¼oz demerara sugar
200g/7¼oz honey
400g/14¼oz porridge oats
100g chocolate broken into pieces.
combination of chillis…..use what you are comfortable with but i like…1 fresh chilli finely sliced, 1 teaspoon of dried chilli and 1 teaspoon of chilli powder. (you can also add coconut, ginger, cherries and any other bits of fruit/nut you like )

You will also need a 20cm x 30cm (8in x 12in) cake tin, greased

Method

1. Put the butter, sugar and honey in a saucepan and heat, stirring occasionally, until the butter has melted and the sugar has dissolved. Add the chilli,chocolate and oats and mix well.

2. Transfer the oat mixture to the prepared cake tin and spread to about 2cm (¾in) thick. Smooth the surface withthe back of a spoon. Bake in a preheated oven at 180C/350F/Gas 4 for 15-20 minutes, until lightly golden around the edges, but still slightly soft in the middle.

3.Let cool in the tin, then turn out and cut into squares.

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Vodka soaked Chillis

Andy — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:45:35 +0000

This is an adaptation of a recipe in the green and blacks chocolate cook book.

it takes a while for the chillis to marinade so its best to do them well in advance

Ingredients:

6 green chillis

6 red chillis

350ml vodka

100g of good quality chocolate (use your favourite white dark or milk)

black pepper

100g of dark good quality dark chocolate

icing sugar

method

wash the chillis, the cut a tiny slit in the side of them, remove the seeds and white membrane then soak in vodka for at least 12 hours.

once marinated you can continue with the bits below

melt the 100g of your favourite choc and mix in a shot of vodka and a pinch of pepper.

transfer to a piping bag and pipe the mix into your chillis

then freeze until needed

to serve

Sprinkle a plate with icing sugar and a little more pepper

melt the 100g of dark chocolate and dip the chillis in ….leaving 1/3 of the chilli not covered in choc

place on the plate then serve

ill make these again soon so i can post some pictures.

Walkers Do us a flavour crisps

Andy — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:07:09 +0000

I’ve been waiting for the results of the Walkers do us a flavour competition for a while now as i was intrigued to see if it would include and new or exciting crisp flavours as its about time we had some new and interesting flavours.

Well ive not been dissapointed with the 6 winning flavours being:

Chilli and Chocolate
Builders Breakfast
Onion Bajji
Fish and Chips
Cajun Squirrel
Duck and hoy sin sauce.

Id heard rumours they were being released today in Asda so called in on the way home, i manged to get all the flavours apart from Cajun Squirrel which i got from Asda near work!

Anyway ill post a review of each flavour on here as and when i try them, so keep your eyes peeled

in the mean time why not check out their website here